Steam Engine Quotes
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The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.
— Peter Singer
The steam engine has done much more for science than science has done for the steam engine.
— William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
Fear is like the steam that fires the combustion engine. You need fear to get a performance going.
— Rachel Weisz
The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire.
— Thomas Carlyle
Anger is a waste of energy. Steam which is used to blow off a safety valve would be better used to drive an engine.
— Winston S. Churchill
The whole question of the steam engine is one of economy. It's development consist of nothing but the quest for greater efficiency.
— William Stanley Jevons
Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science.
— James Bryant Conant
I just want to fly under the radar, because when you start to make yourself into a big deal, that's when you get shot down.
— John Green
Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.
— George Bernard Shaw
I'm not opposed to anything. If an opportunity comes across, I'll answer the door if it comes knocking.
— Rob Brown
[A] pile driver was improvised by mounting a large steam donkey engine, a steam hammer, and a timber tower on a barge.
— Ray Bottenberg
The E.U.'s 500 million citizens enjoy the right to live and work in any of the Union's 27 member states.
— Najib Razak
I make very basic country rustic furniture.
— Thomas Middleditch
Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.
— George Bernard Shaw
Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.
— Melvil Dewey
Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.
— Lawrence Joseph Henderson
I suppose that was my first bit of acting, the acquisition of an English accent. It was really just an attempt to be understood.
— Kenneth Branagh
Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine
— Napoleon Hill
Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is the steam of the corporeal engine; the soul is the engineer who makes use of the steam-quickened engine.
— Sara Coleridge
I would have every man write what he knows and no more.
— Michel De Montaigne
As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.
— Ada Lovelace
Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one's life does not consist of possessions.
— Luke The Evangelist
I'm not a loner. I have to have a life partner.
— Dick Van Dyke
Panting like a marathon runner at mile twenty, overheated bloodhound, steam engine crawling up the Continental Divide.
— Dennis Vickers
All I have learned in the twenty years that I have been a monk I can sum up in one sentence: All that arises passes away. This I know.
— Eckhart Tolle
[Under Marxism] Christ the Redeemer is replaced by the steam engine as the promise of the realm to come.
— Eric Voegelin